Justice in the Obama Administration has a mother; and she has a name; and her name is Shame.
Caught red-handed at the Phoenix airport by an enterprising local TV reporter meeting for a half hour on her private plane with the notoriously sketchy, but powerful, husband of the women who is the subject of the FBI's most high profile investigation in decades, Attorney General Lynch offered plausible and innocent (if lame) explanations: the conversation was confined to "grand children", "golf" and "family", she calmly explained.
However innocent the meeting was, it now appears that Lynch been shamed into declaring that she will follow the Bureau's recommendation regarding its criminal investigation into then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's irregular use of a private email server, and not override the recommendation for reasons of politics:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/us/politics/loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton-email-server.html?_r=0
But back to the unseemly encounter, which raises a whole slew of collateral questions: What was Lynch thinking? What was he thinking? [Rarely can it be safely said that an assignation is the furthest thing from Slick Willy's mind whenever he meets in private with a female, but in the case of stubby, chubby Ms. Lynch, that can confidently be said.] Why does the Attorney General need to fly around on a private plane? What was Ms. Lynch doing in Phoenix? Was the no doubt expensive trip really necessary?
Lynch and her husband are apparently old friends of both Bill and Hillary. Before his impeachment, Bill Clinton appointed Lynch to the position of United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. The Lynches and Clintons have apparently remained friends since. This is the innocent reason dogmatic Clinton defenders have advanced for why the extroverted Bill felt at ease walking across the tarmac to meet with the AG, and she with him.
But the Clintons (and the Lynches, for that matter) cannot have it both ways.
If the Clintons and Lynches are so chummy, then Justice Department regulations require that she recuse herself from the investigation of Secretary Pantsuyit. Conversely, if they are not, why did Bill initiate the meeting in the first instance, and why on earth did Lynch take it?
